adjective (written)
1 eating or wanting large amounts of food:
a voracious eater * to have a voracious appetite
2 wanting a lot of new information and knowledge:
a voracious reader * a boy with a voracious and undiscriminating appetite for facts
voraciously adverb:
Some animals feed voraciously in summer and hibernate in winter. * Ever since her childhood she had read voraciously.
voracity noun [C,U] (formal)
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